Benefit for shaken baby victim in place
Wanda English Burnett - Editor

The money raised from a horse raffle will go directly to the medical care of Mitchell Davis, 3-year-old grandson of Cheryl Chuckry of Madison.

For a $10.00 ticket donation, you have the chance of winning a two-year-old quarterhorse gelding. This beautiful mare has 230 show points and is from the blood line of PJ Aces Up & Lurks Misty Baron. It has been donated by Pam Potter of Lexington.

Tickets and more information are available locally from Carla Miller or Marcia Ralston at the Ripley County Prosecutor's Office located on the third floor of the courthouse at Versailles (689-6331) or from these Madison businesses: Hair Essentials on Main Street; Hair Shack, Three Generations or Cara at the Jefferson County Auditor's Office.

Chuckry notes that HyperBariec Oxygen treatments, which are expensive and not covered by insurance, have been very beneficial to Davis, but more treatments are needed for his recovery.

Every dime of the money raised will go toward the expense of medical treatments for this child and more information can be obtained by calling Chuckry at 812-273-2401.

The drawing will be held June 12, or when 1000 tickets have been sold.

Davis was injured when his step-father Christopher Kelso, 26, of Versailles, admitted on January 8, of 2001, he shook the child when he was only three months old, causing extensive brain damage.

According to Ripley Publishing files, Kelso was given only two and a half years in prison for this crime, after the case was heard by Special Judge James Funke from Jennings County.